A computer program for hospital artificial nutrition

: In this study we present a computer program of artificial nutrition, designed with the aim of obtaining a useful and simple working tool, which simplifies the different steps to be taken when the need for artificial nutrition is indicated in a patient. It has been developed, by the authors, with the aim of organizing and improving the artificial nutrition at the level of our facility. This is a General Hospital with 300 beds, without a nutrition unit, and with an Intensive Care Unit which acts as a nutritional consultant for patients admitted to other departments. In our experience, it has proven to be of great use, with the following advantages: criteria of all the aspects referring to artificial nutrition have been unified (indications, requirements...), the time needed to calculate the requirements and make up the nutritional formula has been reduced, protocolization has been simplified, as well as the nutritional follow up, and it has allowed us to individualize the nutritional treatment, adjusting it to the evolutive changes of our patients.